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Plasma Beyond Pluto - Voyager 1

June 22 , 2025 17 hrs 0 min 8 0
  • NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has detected a shell of superheated plasma at the heliopause.
  • This plasma has been heated to an astonishing 30,000 to 50,000 Kelvin.
  • Heliopause, defines the outer edge of the Sun’s protective bubble known as the heliosphere.
  • Heliopause is the boundary where the Sun’s influence ends nearly 24 billion kilo metres away
  • Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 and has been travelling through the space and crossed into interstellar space in 2012.

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